What are you willing to do to have God visit you?

[Miss Hepburn]

Haha, does that sound like a funny question?
Well, you don't have to post anything here ...but, it is a very important
question for someone on the spiritual path.

Each day if I ask myself what am I willing to do to see God again...well..
Would I keep my mind focused unceasingly on Him?
Would I do every selfless act I could in love for something in His Creation to stay close to Him and His Heart.
Would I become a vegetarian?
Would I sit for hour after hour after waiting for him, preparing a still place in my heart for another Visitation?
Would I let go of my last possession....my very thoughts again, that ego self...to enter into His dwelling place?
All of the above?
Or do I do nothing really....spend a life doing nothing really?
What effort do I need to do? How do I prepare?


And on it goes...what are we willing to do to be with Him in spirit (who has no gender)...up close and personal...
more intimate than most could imagine?
Well, I think it is imp to ask (y/ourselves).

And what could bring God to visit us...deeds, words, actions?
Beliefs, charity....waiting, emptying, longing?

Since being with our Creator and being in His divine love is the true happiness...it takes individual questioning and study, imo.
I thought I would bring up the topic...even if no one ever posts.

[Empowers]

I remember a delightful Zen story:

A Zen Master was meditating by a river when a young man interrupted him. "I wish to become your disciple," said the man. "Why?" replied the Master. The young man thought for a moment, "Because I want to find God."

The Master grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and held his head in the water. After holding him there, with the man struggling, the Master finally let him up.

Sputtering, the man cried, "why did you do that?"

The Master spoke quietly, "When you want to find God as much as you wanted air, you will find him."

[Shivani Devi]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Haha, does that sound like a funny question?
Well, you don't have to post anything here ...but, it is a very important
question for someone on the spiritual path.

Each day if I ask myself what am I willing to do to see God again...well..
Would I keep my mind focused unceasingly on Him?
Would I do every selfless act I could in love for something in His Creation to stay close to Him and His Heart.
Would I become a vegetarian?
Would I sit for hour after hour after waiting for him, preparing a still place in my heart for another Visitation?
Would I let go of my last possession....my very thoughts again, that ego self...to enter into His dwelling place?
All of the above?
Or do I do nothing really....spend a life doing nothing really?
What effort do I need to do? How do I prepare?


And on it goes...what are we willing to do to be with Him in spirit (who has no gender)...up close and personal...
more intimate than most could imagine?
Well, I think it is imp to ask (y/ourselves).

And what could bring God to visit us...deeds, words, actions?
Beliefs, charity....waiting, emptying, longing?

Since being with our Creator and being in His divine love is the true happiness...it takes individual questioning and study, imo.
I thought I would bring up the topic...even if no one ever posts.

This question surfaced for me very recently during a near-death experience in which I said that I wasn't ready to pass over yet...I still had much to do. What followed, was a full length conversation with Lord Yama.

Me: "I am not ready to die right now"
Yama: "Nobody is"
Me: "There is still much I need to achieve"
Yama: "Like what?...What can you possibly do that you haven't already had the opportunity to do, but did not do it?"
Me: "I do not know...All I know is that it will be a waste if I die now"
Yama: "Do you honestly believe that death is something YOU get to control...like trying to control every other aspect of your life? Even avoiding situations you find personally distasteful?"
Me: "If I am able to avoid them, I am not meant to experience them, right?"
Yama: "Not at all, you are just procrastinating as far as karma is concerned and you are upsetting the universal balance. This is why I have come to claim your soul".
Me: "I am a devotee of Lord Shiva...I will call upon Him"
Yama: "Who do you think sent me?"
Me: "So please tell me, advise me... What am I supposed to do? I don't want to die"
Yama: "There is nothing you CAN do but surrender. Let go of the attachment to existence, of wanting to live, to control circumstances according to your ego and then I will decide your fate".

So, I did my best to let go, to surrender into the whole highly unpleasant experience of free-falling into the endless, Dark abyss with a body wracked with pain...after a while, I gave up fighting and it felt like my body, my whole being was being submerged into a hot, relaxing bath...I pictured Lord Shiva and repeated the words of Jesus Christ "Into your hands, I commend my spirit".

After that happened, Lord Shiva appeared before me with the words "You're going to be okay... everything is fine...Just sleep now...relax" and it felt as if I had just been shot full of tranquilizers...I woke up some twelve hours later.

[Rah nam]

We are all on our own path, and all paths ultimately lead to the same.
I will say one thing, if you use your mind to determine what the best or shortest path would be, your search will be in vain, as they say so nicely.

[Compendium]

God visited me in my greatest hour of need In a dream.

I was in the middle of a breakdown of sorts, I had been like that for months. Crying nonstop the most depressed I had ever been. It was awful my Dark Night. I had a dream I was sitting in a church and a voice surrounded me and from the heavens I heard, "See a priest". So I saw a priest....on tv, but I learned one of my greatest life lessons ever and through that lesson I was able to conquer my dark night.

I do everything I can to make sure I do the right, honest, selfless act every chance I get.

[Rain95]

I will give up myself, and unlock the door.

[sky]

Originally Posted by Rain95

I will give up myself, and unlock the door.

I don't have a self and the door is always open

[django]

I am willing to undergo any suffering I need to remove the karma and conditioning that keep me from him, I think this is the best way I can serve him and myself.

Interesting. She can come visit me any time She likes.

☼

[sky]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Haha, does that sound like a funny question?
Well, you don't have to post anything here ...but, it is a very important
question for someone on the spiritual path.

Each day if I ask myself what am I willing to do to see God again...well..
Would I keep my mind focused unceasingly on Him?
Would I do every selfless act I could in love for something in His Creation to stay close to Him and His Heart.
Would I become a vegetarian?
Would I sit for hour after hour after waiting for him, preparing a still place in my heart for another Visitation?
Would I let go of my last possession....my very thoughts again, that ego self...to enter into His dwelling place?
All of the above?
Or do I do nothing really....spend a life doing nothing really?
What effort do I need to do? How do I prepare?


And on it goes...what are we willing to do to be with Him in spirit (who has no gender)...up close and personal...
more intimate than most could imagine?
Well, I think it is imp to ask (y/ourselves).

And what could bring God to visit us...deeds, words, actions?
Beliefs, charity....waiting, emptying, longing?

Since being with our Creator and being in His divine love is the true happiness...it takes individual questioning and study, imo.
I thought I would bring up the topic...even if no one ever posts.

I feel that asking God to visit would be a little rude, he already lives here
I wouldn't want to make a resident feel like a visitor.